ckmlb said:
Ok, let's go with your claim taht the statistics are inflated, you still didn't tell me how more people will die with more health insurance coverage, but stated that it'll make insurance more expensive. 1. Why would insurance rates go up with more compettion? 2. You are not forced to take government healthcare, keep your private healthcare and people who need the public option will go for that. 3. Your claim that insurance prices will go up (despite more competition) is an assumption that is being used by the private insurance companies and those in the right that represent a certain ideology. The AARP is supporting the congressional health care reform, so have th AMA, so you are saying the AARP wants more of its members to die and for health care costs to go up? makes no sense. Also, you know more about health care than the American Medical Association? |
You didn't actually read my post then, cause your bringing up a bunch of stuff that doesn't actually refer to what i said. Additionally you should read the offical detailed AMA stance you can find and download on their webpage in about 5 minutes. It's a lot different then you think it is.
The AARP supports this reform beacuse it includes a provision that increases medicaid and medicare benefits. AARP members mostly being a part of medicaid and/or medicare anyway... making this entire revision meaningless to them.
As for why rates will go up... i'll start with one reason. The simpliest, rather then resort to numerous reasons since that approach leads to them being ignored.
1) You can't discriminate against people with prexisting conditions. Meaning you can't charge anyone with a prexisitng condition a different rate then a normal person.
A) This means the cost needs to be mitigated to everyone. Meaning for average people, your healthcare insurance will go up.
B) May push smaller insraunce companies out of buisness who can't afford having too many people collect and could only afford to insure healthy people. Making less competition and the bigger companies the only competition. The bigger companies being the ones rated poorly for healthcare coverage by the AMA.
Them and the US government.
Fun fact. According to the America Medial Assosiation's National Healthcare Report Card the US government was 1st in denials on average for coverge in 2007... and second in denials on average for 2008 compared to other major healthcare providers.
